Publications by authors named "R Kate Beaton"

Background: Hospitalization of patients with DKA creates a significant burden on the US healthcare system. While previous studies have identified multiple potential contributors, a comprehensive review of the factors leading to DKA readmissions within the US healthcare system has not been done. This scoping review aims to identify how access to care, treatment adherence, socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity impact DKA readmission-related patient morbidity and mortality and contribute to the socioeconomic burden on the US healthcare system.

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Causal reasoning is a fundamental cognitive ability that enables individuals to learn about the complex interactions in the world around them. However, the mechanisms that underpin causal reasoning are not well understood. For example, it remains unresolved whether children's causal inferences are best explained by Bayesian inference or associative learning.

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  • Depression is a major global health issue, with traditional antidepressants often having limited effectiveness and side effects, prompting interest in new treatments that focus on body signaling, like thermosensory responses.
  • This study explored how local skin warming affects stress responses in individuals with varying levels of depressive symptoms, finding that warming significantly reduced sympathetic nervous system activity (indicated by increased fingertip temperature) in participants with high depressive symptoms.
  • The results suggest that peripheral physiological changes—such as those triggered by warmth—could play a key role in understanding and treating depression.
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Inhibition of reaching and grasping actions as an element of cognitive control and executive function is a vital component of sensorimotor behaviour that is often impaired in patients who have lost sensorimotor function following a stroke. To date, there are few kinematic studies detailing the fine spatial and temporal upper limb movements associated with the millisecond temporal trajectory of correct and incorrect responses to visually driven Go/No-Go reaching and grasping tasks. Therefore, we aimed to refine the behavioural measurement of correct and incorrect inhibitory motor responses in a Go/No-Go task for future quantification and personalized rehabilitation in older populations and those with acquired motor disorders, such as stroke.

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